Margarita Mazo, Professor Emerita, has received a substantial and highly competitive two-year grant from National Endowment for the Humanities that will enable the first publication of Igor Stravinsky’s autographs for his seminal 1923 ballet “Les Noces” in facsimile. Mazo’s collaborator in this project is Olga Haldey, an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland and a former PhD student at OSU. The previous grants from the OSU College of Arts and Sciences and American Musicological Society helped to lift the project from the ground and support the initial research. The NEH grant makes this publication possible by providing funds to purchase over 800 high-quality images in full color, reproduction fees, fees of multiple copyright holders, libraries charges, color balancing editing, and travels of the authors to research sites for final checking of the materials, all prohibitively-costly expenses that delayed the publication of this monumental project for years. One of the most powerful and influential compositions of the twentieth century, Igor Stravinsky’s 1923 ballet Les Noces was re-envisioned multiple times throughout its eleven-year history. Conceived in 1912 as a spectacle for the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev’s lavish pre-WWI enterprise, its ethnographic narrative of ancient wedding ritual in Russian villages was gradually stripped down to create the abstract, stark, and austere work we know. Extant autographs for the piece assembled in the facsimile edition shed light on all stages of this remarkable transformation and reflect Stravinsky’s reinvention of his work, artistic self, and the new public image he wanted to present to modernist Paris, as he re-molded himself from a young Russian émigré into a French celebrity, an icon of Parisian modernity, and a leader of contemporary music. Mazo began her investigation of Stravinsky’s autographs for Les Noces in 1997 at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland, then worked with the materials deposited in the archives of Stadtbibliothek Winterthur, University of Lausanne, Bibliothéque Nationale de France, British Library, and The Pierpont Morgan Library, leading to several groundbreaking discoveries, including the original version of the work and two key manuscripts, previously not known to exist. She has published in leading scholarly venues, presented numerous papers and lectures around the world, culminating in 2005 in the much-acclaimed release of the critical edition of the work’s score based on the autograph sources – the first new edition of Les Noces since its 1923 premiere.